Constellations, Le 13 l'echelle a frole le firmament (On the 13th the Ladder Brushed the Firmament), Plate XII

Joan Miró, Spanish, 1893 - 1983

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1959

Pochoir reproduction in color (after the original gouache)

163/350

Overall: 18 1/2 × 15 in. (47 × 38.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Edna K. Warner in memory of her husband Keith Warner

PR.960.91.12

Printer

Atelier de Daniel Jacomet, Paris

Publisher

Pierre Matisse, New York

Geography

Place Made: Spain, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Portfolio page signed, in blue ink, lower left: Miro; same page signed, in red ink, lower right: Andre Breton. Lithograph signed, in graphite, lower right: Miro. (underscored); inscribed, in graphite, lower left: 163/350

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 45, Discovering Identity Through Art, Joan Miro and Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist Explorations of the Unconscious, Melissa Fan, Class of 2008, Main Lobby, Levinson Student Intern, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 16-August 3, 2008.

Shadows and Hallucinations: Surrealist Art from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, MALS308, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 24-September 5, 1999.

Three Print Portfolio, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 14-March 6, 1977.

Two prints from the portfolio, Women by the Shore of a Lake Made Iridescent by a Passing Swan and The Passage of the Divine Bird were exhibited in: Surrealist Works from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, MALS, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 20-September 1, 2002.

Publication History

Melissa Fan, Class of 2008, Levinson Student Intern, A Space for Dialogue 45, Discovering Identity Through Art, Joan Miro and Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist Explorations of the Unconscious, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2008, ill. p. 1.

Provenance

Keith Warner (1895-1959); to his wife Edna K. Warner (1911-2015); given to present collection, 1960.

Catalogue Raisonne

Joan Miro: Lithographs, 1975, vol. II, no. 261

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